Example sentences of "[modal v] say [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However they may express his uniqueness , they must say of Jesus of Nazareth that there was a revelation of God through him in a way in which this is not true of you or me . |
| 2 | Can you imagine what she must say to Matthew ? ’ |
| 3 | Before she finished here and made her way to the sitting room , there were certain things she must say to Cissie , and she must say them without alarming the girl , yet , at the same time , make her aware that she was no longer a child , that she already had the mark of a woman on her . |
| 4 | But I must say through help of the national agreement and that takes us back to nineteen forty seven . |
| 5 | I started losing mine when I was nineteen , and er I must say in answer to that gentleman 's |
| 6 | Cathbad clicked his tongue , because this was not the sort of thing you should say to soldiers , who were easily cast down and sent into gloom and doom , something you should certainly avoid before going into battle . |
| 7 | But it should say to editors and , and radio people , ‘ Hey , this , this could be interesting for you , there 's a story here . ’ |
| 8 | You should say to Steven , ah no I did n't say anything . |
| 9 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 10 | Before doing so I should say by way of parenthesis that I have totally bypassed the colleagues who are currently members of the Government , several of whom suggested privately that they would resign if the Maastricht bill or anything like it is brought back on to the floor of the House of Commons . |
| 11 | Erm Roosevelt was er despite the er rather unusual route to the presidency , really rather a good president but he had a , he had a very particular view of the presidency which was one which he shared with Lincoln but he took up Lincoln 's arguments and , and developed it further and I quote from er Roosevelt 's autobiography , which is rather more revealing than most autobiographies , erm Roosevelt was n't modest I should say in case you , if you wonder when I read you something . |
| 12 | ‘ There is nothing which I can or should say in advance of the inquiry . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , so I will do quite a lot of erm , stuff erm I should say in geography , sort of work in geography for that things . |
| 14 | My husband always gets amazed at that , if we 're outside he 'll say to people ask , do you know if she likes her job and they , he 's amazed Ken that can |
| 15 | Because you 'll say to people , did you take all your holiday last year . |
| 16 | But the thing is , my mum 's an and , and Trevor 's Aunty Edna have started writing to each other and have become friends so we 'll see you again at Christmas she 'll say to aunty Edna ! |
| 17 | And she 'll say to Jimmy erm I do n't know how you 're managing to look after yourself . |
| 18 | I also went to Prague , Czechoslovakia , hardly sun sangria and sea , Councillor but one thing I 'll say about Prague , and this is where all the arguments about Brussels fall down , it 's alright to go to Brussels and not to Prague . |
| 19 | There 's one thing I 'll say for history . |
| 20 | Cos normally they 'll say like Selfridges or Harrods or |
| 21 | I mean it may well be we 'll say in year seven , look the things we 're looking for here and I want everybody to comment on is , A er , how well they 've settled down er how well they 're getting on with others but there 's no reason why you ca n't make those decisions . |
| 22 | I 'll say in terms of excellence they come no finer . |
| 23 | cos you might say to Mark , oh have a listen to my recording |
| 24 | He recalls in his teens being summoned to Cherwell for dinner parties when a Cabinet minister might say to Lord Beaverbrook : ‘ What do you think of Germany ? ’ |
| 25 | She did not begin to think of what she might say to Kathleen . |
| 26 | Erm we might say for example er that all of these gifts , you 've heard of the word grace ? |
| 27 | Much of sociological research is , we might say following Garfinkel , trying to " find the animal in the foliage " or , to extend the implication of the metaphor , trying to see if an idea can be made to say something of sociological interest . |
| 28 | To extrapolate what they might say about women 's experience under patriarchy on the basis of comments about the reading material they choose is quite a leap . |
| 29 | Simon Fraser , the SLF director , said : ‘ In spite of what Government and others might say about quota not having a value , there are clearly farmers willing to pay very large sums for the rights to Sheep Annual Premium . |
| 30 | Mr Clinton might say in June that he is renewing MFN until 1994 ; that he is looking at the application of other American laws to areas like weapons proliferation and trade abuses ; and that he is starting some ( as yet murky ) process to ensure that the Chinese are discharging their obligations under human-rights treaties . |